Clinical Tools

First Nations Discharge Tools

• Checklist for Discharge of First Nations Patients Returning to Home Communities (PDF, 43 KB)
• Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care (PDF, 43 KB)

The Palliative Performance Scale

The PPS is designed to allow health care professionals to measure performance status at the end-of-life based on five objective indicators.

• Palliative Performance Scale (PDF, 84 KB)
  A non-water marked version is available for WRHA staff for use in clinical areas.  Anyone else interested in using the PPSv2 tool must contact Victoria Hospice for copyright permission.

The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System

ESAS is designed to help health care professionals assess common symptoms at the end of life. The ESAS elicits the patient's subjective perception using a numerical scale.

• Edmonton Symptom Assessment System

Pain Clinical Practice Guideline

The Pain CPG is a tool that is being implemented throughout the WRHA to promote evidence-based pain assessment, management and education.

• Pain Assessment and Management Clinical Practice Guideline (PDF, 1.9 MB)
• Canadian Virtual Hospice's Tools for Practice
• Using Methadone to Treat Pain (PDF, 40 KB)